Correspondence-blank



C. J. BOLGIANO.

CORRESPONDENCE BLANK.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 7. 1919.

1,349,547. Patented Aug. 10,1920.

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UNITED STATES CHARLES J. IBOLGIANO, 0F BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

CORRESPONDENCE-BLANK.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES J. BoncLANo, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in the city of Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Correspondence- Blanks, of which the following is a specification. l

This invention relates to a correspondence blank, whereby the personality of the writer is impressed upon the party addressed much more vividly than in the ordinary practice, so that'in' the sales argument or advertising campaign, collection, or whatever the enterprise to which the correspondence is incident, the personal qualities of the individual are given a similar effect to that which they would have in an interview; and to the medium of such correspondence or letter blanks upon which the method is depend ent.

Such a correspondence blank is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which the figure is a view of the faceof the letter blank embodying the invention. I

Referring to the drawing by numerals: The blank includes a suitable letterhead 1, and is preferably to be addressed to the particular correspondentor prospect, the body 2 of the letter being contalned in the central portion of the sheet, which sheet or blank .is to be signed at 3. An important feature instance reads, Personal service from. In-

conncction with the portrait, the form shown also includes the name of the individual who is to sign the letters on the particular blanks in question, as at 6, and the Specification of Letters Patent.

ortrait being. prefere Patented Aug. 10, 1920.

Application filed April 7, 191a Serial no. 288,431.

name of his position or office in the particular buslness organization to which the correspondence and letterhead relate, same to be indicated by character 7.

. The method consists in the use on letterblanks in advertising, solicitin collecting and the like, of the portrait 0% the writer aflixed to the stationery in connection with, in immediate relation to the. signature, or at the point at which the signature would ordinaril} be placed.

Having thus described a letter blank and method embodying my invention, specifically and in detail, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A letter-blank for use in business correspondence, advertising, soliciting, collecting and the like, having a suitable letterhead to indicate the nature of the business and a portrait separate from the letter sheet,

afiiired adjacent the point of signature, with an inscription near the portrait indicating thatit is the portrait of thewriter;

2. A letter-blank for use in business correspondence, advertising, soliciting and collecting, and the like, having a suitable letterhead to indicate the nature of the business, and a portrait with an inscription indicating that it is the portrait of the writer adjacent to the point of signature.

3., A letter blank for use in business correspondence, advertising, collecting, soliciting and the like, having a suitable letterhead to mdlcate the nature of a business, a space arranged, below said letterhead for receiving the matter to be written to the addressee,

a signature space located beneath the writing space, a portrait'of' the signer located adjacent to the signature space and an inscription indicating the position of the signer in the business.

; Signed by me at Baltimore, Maryland, this 2nd day of April, 1919.

CHARLES J. BOLGIANO.

Witnesses v EMMA WEHMEYER, ZELLA KEELEN. 

